This paean to Kim Jong UnApartheid Edgelord is something anybody working in North Koreaat Xhitter should start seriously carefully considering, deciding which side of history they want to stand on.
Apartheid Edgelord's performance in that interview was absolutely "an unmatched and completely unvarnished perspective and vision for the future". In that literally nobody else in history looked as much a total fucking jackass as Xhitter's de-facto CEO in such a short amount of time. Between his constantly turning to the audience, clearly seeking approval of random strangers and his constant claims that he doesn't care about popularity, Apartheid Edgelord is an abject embarrassment.
How would you go about making non-clopping heels? (Protip: you'd better consider lateral stability in your design or you're going to be breaking a fuckload of ankles.)
If you can't celebrate the death of a monster responsible for literally millions of dead human beings, what can you celebrate? If you can't celebrate the deaths of rent-seeking purveyors of misery and exploitation, what can you celebrate?
Oh, I know! You can only celebrate entirely fictitious things like the birth of a "saviour", right?
Way back when, when speciality cable became a thing, the big appeal to all these cable packages was "no ads, unlike regular television channels".
Everybody started buying cable packages. And it was glorious! You could watch a show or a movie WITHOUT getting interrupted by stupid bullshit ads.
Then they started putting ads in between episodes or shows. People grumbled, but hey, it was between not during so ... nobody pulled out (statistically speaking).
Then they'd put an ad in the middle. Just a short one. People grumbled, but hey, it was short. So nobody (statistically speaking) pulled out.
Over time, using salami tactics (one thin slice after another), ads got injected into all these speciality packages. In the end you got exactly the same as what you'd fled from. Only you paid ten times as much for it.
And nobody (statistically speaking) pulled out.
So guess what Youtube Premium is going to be doing? (Hint: history doesn't repeat, but it sure as fuck rhymes!)
I actually support Kessler Syndrome. Get it started and those TESCREAL fuckwits in the USA won't continue with their idiot fantasy of colonizing Mars and will have to focus on making the Earth survivable.
Then perhaps make the opt-out process better and easier? Requiring people who want to opt out to sign into a completely different service and then manually delete messages fully qualifies as "obnoxious".
(Incidentally, my issue is the other direction. I don't want my content over on Reddit. I don't have a Reddit account. I've never had a Reddit account. I don't ever want to have a Reddit account. And, get this, I don't want my stuff showing up on Reddit.)
Regarding “Reddit users have no control over the mirror”. I’d argue that they do have a way to delete the content from Lemmy and it’s quite simple. Any user that has been mirrored by alien.top needs to do the following:
When Google and company do "opt-out" features that people are forced into using unless they manually opt-out (usually with long and convoluted procedures that aren't front and centre in the docs), they are (rightly) excoriated for it.
Thankfully you don't have long and convoluted procedures to opt out…
Sign up via the portal to take over the bot account.
Login to the instance using the password provided.
Delete all their posts.
… Oops.
Rethink this if you don't want really serious backlash. This is almost the textbook case of how not to do features.
The logic here doesn't work for me. Moon cakes are generally eaten only in the week surrounding the Mid-Autumn Festival here in China. It's traditional, see. Yet they're incredibly yummy and were they available at other times they'd likely be consumed cheerfully. In Hubei there's a special dish of "birthday noodles" eaten basically only on your birthday. (And only by you; the rest of your family doesn't get them.) They're also incredibly delicious ... and literally eaten only once a year.
The fact that something is eaten only seasonally or by special occasion doesn't mean that it's not tasty. It means that it's special, nothing more.
Then use them.
Next obvious thing you need patiently explained…